Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Technician -- Review

Nice review of The Technician here. Interesting in that it is from someone who is fairly new to my books:

As a relative newcomer to the Polity universe, with this only being my second Asher book, I wasn't sure how well I'd be able to follow the story. I was in for a pleasant surprise. Although the story does take a while to get started and I struggled a little with the technology of it, I thoroughly enjoyed the read.

Serpent-like monstrosities have been a staple of the kind of fiction I've read for decades, Andrew. But generally my monsters find their genesis in non-fiction; stuff about our natural world.

I tell you what. If you're talking about the sea-serpent in the film and the way its top end opened up into a hood to expose all those horrible leggy bits, I'd say its more likely that whoever was involved read one of my books!